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    Charley Varrick (1973)

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    Former stunt pilot turned independent crop duster Charley Varrick (Walter Matthau), his wife and his two-man gang rob a bank in a backwater New Mexico town (Tres Cruces) collecting not only the bank’s money but also the loot deposited there illegally by the Mafia.

    Pursued by both Police and Mafia, Charley plans a scheme to escape with the loot.

    Charley outsmarts his Mafia nemesis, Molly (Joe Don Baker) by imposing his carefully calculated deceptions on top of a world in which nothing is what it appears to be, to begin with: A Chinese waitress turns out to speak perfect English; a Chinese restaurant turns out to be a Mafia front; Charley’s broken leg turns out to be a disguise; a one-legged gun dealer turns out to be a fence and stool pigeon; everyone turns on everyone else so that the only sane thing to do is to live in spiritual isolation, trusting no one – which is exactly what Charley does.

    Because the Mafia will hunt him until they think him dead, Charley must not merely win, but successfully fade into obscurity.

    Based on the novel The Looters by John Reese.

    Charley Varrick
    Walter Matthau
    Molly
    Joe Don Baker
    Sybil Fort
    Felicia Farr
    Harmon Sullivan
    Andrew Robinson
    Maynard Boyle
    John Vernon
    Jewell Everett
    Sheree North
    Mr Garfinkle
    Norman Fell
    Honest John
    Benson Fong
    Howard Young
    Woodrow Parfrey
    Sheriff Bill Horton
    William Schallert
    Nadine Varrick
    Jacqueline Scott
    Mrs Taff
    Marjorie Bennett
    Rudy Sanchez
    Rudy Diaz
    Steele
    Colby Chester
    Miss Ambar
    Priscilla García
    Mr Scott
    Scott Hale
    Miss Vesta
    Hope Summers
    Beverly
    Monica Lewis
    Tom
    Tom Tully
    Randolph Percy
    Albert Popwell
    Jessie
    Kathleen O’Malley
    Jana
    Christina Hart
    Van Sickle
    Craig R. Baxley
    Murph
    Don Siegel

    Director
    Don Siegel

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